Our mission is to accept owner surrendered horses, to rescue, rehabilitate, retrain and rehome horses at need, ideally before there is a need to involve animal control.
Our ByLaws require that all applicants be members first ($25/yr). We are a membership nonprofit organization. You can become a member and apply to adopt all on the same day. The first step in adoption is submitting a $25 Application fee. After submitting Application payment, please download the adoption application. You will need to download it, complete it, then email it to us. Upon approval of the application, and selection of a good match for the adopter and adoptee alike, an adoption contract is entered into between Crosswinds and the adopter, ensuring that both parties are clear on what each expects of the other. Adoption fees vary by horse, and are set based upon the skills and functionality of the horse him/herself. Fees are set as roughly half what the equivalent horse would sell for had s/he not been through a rescue situation. By setting fees in this manner, adopters who could not otherwise afford such a horse can now do so with this lowered pricing, and the higher fees for some horses help offset the extraordinary expenses and needs of some of the others. Crosswinds gladly delivers horses to their new homes for slightly more than the actual expenses incurred in transport.